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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations must deal with now that distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Timor-Leste (East Timor) to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational initiatives. Instructors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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