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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education have enabled people all over the world to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the training provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this need for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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