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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in blended learning enable people all over the world to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations have to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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