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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in blended learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Faroe Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these important new open education undertakings. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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