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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in blended learning technology have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a variety of subjects that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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