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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like The Ohio State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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