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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in elearning make it possible for students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This book also explores the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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