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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in e-learning technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Latvia to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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