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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these new open education ventures. Corporations want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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