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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in electronic education technology enable people in nations all aver the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with now that blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers make sure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Florida to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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