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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in blended learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these fascinating new open education ventures. Students want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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