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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in learning technology are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like French Polynesia to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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