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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in electronic education technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology institutions have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can participants assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Peru to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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