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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in electronic education technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Angola to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational ventures. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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