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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in blended learning have enabled students all around the world to take part in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are struggling with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Somalia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Intellectuals want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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