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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in learning technology are empowering humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning institutions are considering in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can organizations make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Vatican City to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these important new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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