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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in e-learning are empowering people all around the world to take courses online. MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like Nicaragua to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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