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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in online learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology institutions are considering more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of these open education experiments. Educators want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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