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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in electronic education technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations have to consider today because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing need for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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