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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in e-learning technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology organizations must deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Trainers want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also explores the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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