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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in online education have empowered humans in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ecuador to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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