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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in learning technology have empowered people all over the world to take part in online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Universities want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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