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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous subjects that blended learning organizations have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Somaliland to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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