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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions must deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions make sure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Guam to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this demand for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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