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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in online education have empowered people all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to better comprehend these interesting new open educational ventures. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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