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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in blended learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle low motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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