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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in blended learning technology enable people all around the world to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning institutions have to consider today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Mauritius to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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