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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC classes are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Jersey to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Instructors want to understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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