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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in blended learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like WizIQ 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 poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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