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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning enable learners all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Faroe Islands to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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