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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in e-learning have empowered people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are having to consider now that distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also researches the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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