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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational initiatives. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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