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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in online education have enabled people in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. 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. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better perceive these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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