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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in online education enable students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. 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 massive online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. Public servants want to know how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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