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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New changes in blended learning have made it possible for people all over the world to take part in courses online. These massively open online courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations must deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Grenada to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Professors want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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