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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online education are empowering students in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations have to deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coral Sea Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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