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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in elearning are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations are considering in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Svalbard to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these new open educational experiments. Academics want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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