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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in electronic education technology enable people in nations all around the world to participate in classes 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 open courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Berklee College of Music to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. People want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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