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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern changes in distance learning have empowered learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can we assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive these interesting new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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