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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in digital education technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. 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. MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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