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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for students all around the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning institutions have to deal with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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