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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in elearning enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous topics that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of New Mexico to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education undertakings. People want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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