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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning are enabling humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants want to understand these important new open educational endeavours. People want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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