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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in elearning are enabling humans all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these significant new open educational endeavours. Professors want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This thrilling new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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