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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in digital education technology have enabled people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several topics that online education institutions have to consider today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Boston University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants want to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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