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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in classes online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations are having to consider now that learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive these important new open educational endeavours. People want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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