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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in elearning technology enable people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also explores the most important 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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