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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in e-learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a variety of subjects that blended learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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