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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in blended learning are providing the means for students all over the world to take online classes. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ashmore and Cartier Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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