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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in distance learning are enabling students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are having to consider today because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Kazakhstan to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Teachers want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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