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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in electronic educational technology enable people all over the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning institutions are considering now that blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Turkmenistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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