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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online education technology enable humans all over the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations must deal with now that blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Tumblr to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants want to better comprehend these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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