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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in online learning have enabled students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners 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 several topics that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Argentina to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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