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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in elearning have provided the means for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like British Antarctic Territory to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Students want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this crescive need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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