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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in blended learning technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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