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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education make it possible for humans in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these significant new open educational experiments. Universities want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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