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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in blended learning technology are empowering students all over the world to participate in classes online. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Portugal to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Corporations want to understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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