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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in online education technology enable people in every nation on earth to take classes online. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Marshall Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Trainers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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