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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New developments in blended learning technology have empowered learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Chile to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage poor motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these significant new open educational undertakings. Public servants want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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