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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in blended learning technology enable learners all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Bouvet Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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