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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in blended learning technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to better comprehend these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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