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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in blended learning technology have provided the means for students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can educators ensure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Saint Pierre and Miquelon to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this need for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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