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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning are enabling people all over the world to take online classes. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these important new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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