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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advancements in blended learning are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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