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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in e-learning enable people all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning organizations are considering now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these important new open education ventures. Instructors want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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