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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online learning technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are struggling with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these intriguing new open education initiatives. Public servants want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing 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 educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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