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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in elearning technology have provided the means for students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. People want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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