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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advancements in blended learning technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more available there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Trainers want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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