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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in blended learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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