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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in blended learning technology make it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Wake Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education undertakings. Students want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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