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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in blended learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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