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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in blended learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like British Indian Ocean Territory to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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