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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning technology have empowered people all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students 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 blended learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education initiatives. Lecturers want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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