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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in digital education technology are empowering people all over the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Ascension to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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