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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in blended learning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Tanzania to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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