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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in blended learning technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. 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. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Tunisia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education endeavours. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also describes the 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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