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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in blended learning technology have empowered people all over the world to take online courses. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are struggling with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Saint Kitts and Nevis to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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