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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in digital education technology enable humans all around the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations have to consider today because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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