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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in blended learning have enabled people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like The University of Chicago to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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