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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in e-learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Duke University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these fascinating new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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