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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education enable students all around the world to participate in courses online. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that distance learning institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these compelling new open education initiatives. Scholars want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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