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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in digital education technology make it possible for students in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Portugal to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this desire for details 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 scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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