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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in electronic education technology have empowered humans all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning institutions are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Greenland to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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