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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in blended learning technology make it possible for learners all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like American Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this developing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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