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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in online courses. 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. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Uzbekistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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