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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in blended learning technology have enabled learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations must deal with now that blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like British Indian Ocean Territory to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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