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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in blended learning have enabled people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to consider now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing desire for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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