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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in learning technology enable people all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Portugal to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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