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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in e-learning enable students all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can educators certify that the training provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this demand for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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