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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in electronic educational technology have empowered humans all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can participants assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Angola to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education endeavours. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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