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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest advancements in blended learning are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology organizations have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Greece to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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