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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in blended learning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning institutions have to consider now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to understand these compelling new open educational experiments. Educators want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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