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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for students in all parts of the world to take 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. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this growing need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses 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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