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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in electronic educational technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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