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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in e-learning have enabled learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online education institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Minnesota to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a desire to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scientists want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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