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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online learning have made it possible for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that blended learning institutions have to consider today because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Rwanda to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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