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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in e-learning technology enable students all around the world to take courses online. 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. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations are considering now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Great Basin College to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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