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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in blended learning technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with now that learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Denmark to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. People want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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