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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning technology have enabled students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Guatemala to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp these exciting new open educational initiatives. People want to know how MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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