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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in electronic education technology have empowered learners all around the world to be participants in classes online. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are considering now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these compelling new open education initiatives. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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