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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in online education are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Vanuatu to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to better grasp these interesting new open educational initiatives. People want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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