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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in blended learning are empowering students all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Papua New Guinea to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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