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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free 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 a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations have to consider now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators certify that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like British Sovereign Base Areas to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these exciting new open education initiatives. Students want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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