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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest developments in electronic educational technology enable humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions must deal with today because distance learning technology is developing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Lithuania to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this desire for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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