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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in technology-enhanced learning are enabling students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that blended learning institutions have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Rwanda to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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