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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning technology have enabled humans all over the world to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Utah State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Scientists want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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