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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New gains in blended learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to take online courses. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education institutions are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Netherlands to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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