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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in electronic education technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are considering today because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Kingman Reef to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This definitive new book also studies the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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