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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advancements in blended learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the major 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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