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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in blended learning technology enable learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coral Sea Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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