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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in blended learning make it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Students want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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