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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning technology have enabled humans in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. MOOC courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Benin to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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