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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online learning enable people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational ventures. Universities want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This thrilling new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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