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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in distance learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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