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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in blended learning technology are providing the means for students all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to better comprehend these significant new open educational experiments. Academics want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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