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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in blended learning technology have empowered humans all around the world to participate in classes online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are struggling with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education initiatives. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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