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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in blended learning technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online education organizations are having to attend to more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Wallis and Futuna to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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