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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern developments in online education technology are empowering people all over the world to take part in classes 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. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like University of Central Florida to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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