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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in blended learning have made it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous subjects that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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