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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in online education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are having to consider today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Latvia to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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