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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in blended learning technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that blended learning institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and many other participants desire to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this growing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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