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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in learning technology have empowered humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free 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 quite a few issues that blended learning organizations are considering today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education ventures. Everybody wants to perceive how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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