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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in online education have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in classes online. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are considering today because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these promising new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This thrilling new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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