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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in online education enable students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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