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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for humans all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Elidaemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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