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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with now that blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Scholars want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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