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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in online education have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These online MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can participants manage issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this developing need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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