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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people all around the world to take part in online classes. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with now that blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Central Florida to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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