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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning enable learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions are having to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can institutions certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Somaliland to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these new open education undertakings. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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