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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in online education are enabling students in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are struggling with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UWashingtonX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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