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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in online education enable people all over the world to take classes online. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions are considering more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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