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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Utah to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Everyone wants to understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also talks about the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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