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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in distance learning have empowered people in nations all aver the world to participate in courses online. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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