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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like British Sovereign Base Areas to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Scientists want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this developing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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