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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning technology have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning institutions have to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Emory University to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also studies the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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