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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education enable people in all parts of the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these compelling new open education initiatives. Public servants want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this developing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also researches the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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