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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in digital education technology are empowering learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that blended learning organizations are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Peru to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these exciting new open education endeavours. Researchers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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