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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in digital education technology make it possible for students in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that distance learning organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like U.S. Virgin Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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