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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in distance learning are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can we assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle low motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these important new open educational undertakings. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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