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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in online education technology are enabling humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators make sure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like South Ossetia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also studies the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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