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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in distance learning are empowering learners in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to better understand these compelling new open education ventures. Everybody wants to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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