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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern changes in e-learning technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Denmark to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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