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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in e-learning have made it possible for humans all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several topics that online education institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Columbia University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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