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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in elearning enable learners in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These online MOOC courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to understand these new open education endeavours. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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