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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in blended learning are enabling learners in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations have to deal with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scholars want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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