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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in blended learning technology have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This sensational new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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