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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are considering more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive need for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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