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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in distance learning technology are enabling people all over 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. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Canvas Network to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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