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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online education are enabling students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Central African Republic to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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