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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in e-learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Minnesota to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Public servants want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also deals with the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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