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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Belize to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational ventures. Academics want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this need for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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