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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in online learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can we guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Netherlands to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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