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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in electronic education technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations are having to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Zambia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education endeavours. Educators want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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