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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in blended learning technology are empowering people all around the world to be participants in courses online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These online MOOCs are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are struggling with now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Haiti to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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