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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in digital education technology have empowered people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Czech Republic to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education initiatives. Academics want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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