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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New developments in online learning technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations are having to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Belize to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This amazing new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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