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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in blended learning technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take online classes. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Cape Verde to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This thrilling new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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