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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in elearning are enabling students in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology organizations must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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