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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations must deal with now that blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Washington to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants need to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also deals with the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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