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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in elearning enable students all over the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education ventures. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desideratum for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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