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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education technology are making it possible for people in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like The Bahamas to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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