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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in blended learning technology are providing the means for students all over the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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