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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in elearning enable people all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend these compelling new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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