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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in distance learning technology are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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