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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in blended learning enable people in all parts of the world to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Senegal to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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