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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in digital education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Boston University to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these open educational undertakings. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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