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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions are having to deal with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these new open education endeavours. Students want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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