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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in electronic educational technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Guam to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This thrilling new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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