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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in online education have empowered humans in nations all around the world to take courses online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are having to consider today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Broward College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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