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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning organizations have to consider now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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