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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in blended learning are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. These MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations are struggling with now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Open2Study to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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