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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic education technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations are considering in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Minnesota to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Educators want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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