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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in online education are empowering students in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Haiti to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scientists want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also researches the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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