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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education are providing the means for students all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is adequate? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like Utah Valley University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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