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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in online education are empowering people in nations all aver the world to be participants in 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 almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Great Basin College to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to better perceive these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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