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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education are empowering learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a growing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Educators want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this need for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also researches the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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