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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning make it possible for humans in all parts of the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that e-learning organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Macau to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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