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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in blended learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning institutions must deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a growing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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