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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Greece to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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