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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many subjects that e-learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Malaysia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education