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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is improving so fast. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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