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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in elearning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are considering now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Ball State University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also researches the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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