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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with subjects related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in e-learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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