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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning institutions have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Norway to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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