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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in electronic educational technology are enabling students in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These massive online courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Cuba to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and many other stakeholders need to better perceive these new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this growing need for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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