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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in blended learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to take online classes. These massive online courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this growing desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This interesting new book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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