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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in distance learning have enabled humans in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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