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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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