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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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