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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online education technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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