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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning are empowering people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions are struggling with now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like One Month to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. People want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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