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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in blended learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These MOOC classes are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education initiatives. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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