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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in blended learning technology have empowered learners in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this desire for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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