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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in blended learning make it possible for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are numerous topics that blended learning institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the quality control for these MOOC courses is good? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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