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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in blended learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Equatorial Guinea to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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