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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online education technology enable students all around the world to participate in online classes. 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. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Central Florida to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to be more aware of these open educational endeavours. Academics want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this developing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also explores the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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