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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in online education have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Norway to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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