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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in online learning are empowering students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are considering today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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