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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in blended learning technology have enabled learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Kingman Reef to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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