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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New advances in online education are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOCs are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with now that distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a necessity to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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