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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in electronic education technology have enabled humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. 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. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning institutions are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Libya to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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