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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in blended learning have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Papua New Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Corporations want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This exciting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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