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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online learning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Queen Maud Land to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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