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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in blended learning are enabling students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Macedonia to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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