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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in technology-enhanced learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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