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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in elearning technology enable humans all over the world to participate in classes online. MOOC classes are almost always free 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 quite a few topics that elearning technology organizations have to deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Malta to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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