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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern developments in e-learning have empowered humans in nations all aver the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many subjects that blended learning institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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