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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions are struggling with now that blended learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Saint Helena to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these exciting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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