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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in learning technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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