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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning have enabled students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like One Month to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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