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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in electronic education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Vietnam to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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