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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in electronic educational technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with now that distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Trainers want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also talks about the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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