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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in online education are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Belize to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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