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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in digital education technology have enabled learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can participants ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Michigan State University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education initiatives. Researchers want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also addresses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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