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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in blended learning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Wallis and Futuna to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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