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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in blended learning technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is passable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Philippines to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education undertakings. Scientists want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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