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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online education technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. 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. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are dealing with today because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Palau to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also articulates 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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