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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in blended learning enable students all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can participants assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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