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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are considering today because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Bermuda to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a growing need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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