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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online education enable people in nations all aver the world to be participants in online courses. These massively open online 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 today because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Comoros to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Scientists want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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