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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in blended learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that e-learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This book also researches the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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