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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to consider today because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can we certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Grenada to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also explores the controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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