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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in distance learning technology are empowering humans all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This exciting new book also considers the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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