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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in e-learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like University of Houston System to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education undertakings. Scholars want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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