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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning have empowered people all around the world to take courses online. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Ireland to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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