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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in e-learning are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Teachers want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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