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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are having to deal with now that blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of Virginia to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these significant new open educational ventures. Students want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the 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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