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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in blended learning technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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