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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations have to consider more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Trainers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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