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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning enable humans all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Mauritius to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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