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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in online education have enabled humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions must deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Chile to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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