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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in blended learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. 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. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also explores the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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