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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in blended learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants would like to better understand these new open education experiments. Trainers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this demand for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This definitive new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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