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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Liechtenstein to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage low motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. People want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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