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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online education technology have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning organizations have to deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these fascinating new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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