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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education have empowered humans in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational ventures. Public servants want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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