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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education technology enable people in nations all around the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions have to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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