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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOC courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are having to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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