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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in elearning are providing the means for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is all right? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Mauritania to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Students want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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