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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. 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. These massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous subjects that blended learning organizations are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Reunion to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational undertakings. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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