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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in elearning have empowered students in nations all aver the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning organizations have to deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Philippines to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better understand these new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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