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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in blended learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also addresses the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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