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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in distance learning technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology institutions are considering more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also examines the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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