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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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