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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in blended learning technology have made it possible for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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