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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in e-learning are enabling people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs 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 a variety of subjects that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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