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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in electronic education technology are providing the means for students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Coral Sea Islands to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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