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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in blended learning enable people all over the world to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that blended learning organizations are having to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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