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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in blended learning technology are enabling learners all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Cocos (Keeling) Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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