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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in digital education technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle low motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to understand these significant new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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