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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning technology are providing the means for students all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Lithuania to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scholars want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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