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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in digital education technology are empowering learners all over the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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