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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning enable learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Central Florida to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational initiatives. Lecturers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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