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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These online MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Google+ to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to be more aware of these promising new open educational endeavours. Educators want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this developing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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