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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in elearning are enabling learners in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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