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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in digital education technology make it possible for humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions have to deal with now that distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Students want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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