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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in digital education technology have enabled learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Cayman Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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