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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in distance learning have enabled people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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