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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in distance learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with now that blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like The Ohio State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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