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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in elearning have empowered humans in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. Massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Wellesley College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this demand for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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