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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in electronic educational technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this developing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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