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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to participate in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. 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. These online MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle low motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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