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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in blended learning technology enable people all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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