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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in elearning have enabled people in nations all aver the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Kentucky to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This thrilling new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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