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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions must deal with now that blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Portugal to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to comprehend how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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