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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in blended learning are empowering humans all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can educators be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Thailand to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these fascinating new open educational initiatives. Students want to know how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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