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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic educational technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to understand these interesting new open education experiments. People want to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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