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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in elearning are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is decent? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Liberia to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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