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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in electronic education technology enable humans all over the world to take online classes. 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 classes are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning organizations are having to consider now that elearning technology is improving so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants desire to understand these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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