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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in blended learning technology are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are free for students but do not consistently 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 institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Educators want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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