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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning are empowering learners in all parts of the world to take online classes. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Honduras to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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