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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in digital education technology have empowered humans in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations are dealing with today because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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