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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in blended learning technology are empowering humans all around the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are mostly 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 quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions have to deal with today because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like CaltechX to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants need to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Teachers want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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