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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in online education have made it possible for students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions must deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these compelling new open education initiatives. Students want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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