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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in e-learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently 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 a variety of topics that elearning technology organizations are struggling with now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants desire to understand these new open education endeavours. Researchers want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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