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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to understand these promising new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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