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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in blended learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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