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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in blended learning enable people all over the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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