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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in learning technology are enabling learners in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Great Basin College to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these compelling new open education experiments. Trainers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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