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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning technology are making it possible for learners all over the world to take online courses. MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we make sure that the quality control for these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Macau to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this developing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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