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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in blended learning have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Latvia to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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