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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in online education have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with now that learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Kiribati to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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