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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in e-learning are enabling humans all around the world to take online classes. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are considering now that blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational ventures. Intellectuals want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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