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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning technology make it possible for students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Kingman Reef to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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