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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in online learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to take 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 massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that elearning technology institutions are dealing with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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