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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in blended learning have enabled people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Students want to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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