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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in e-learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Puerto Rico to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to understand these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this increasing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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