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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online learning have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants want to better comprehend these open education experiments. Intellectuals want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this increasing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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