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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education technology enable humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to better grasp these promising new open education endeavours. People want to understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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