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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in e-learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is adequate? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Professors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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