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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in digital education technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning institutions must deal with now that distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive demand for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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