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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in blended learning make it possible for people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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