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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in blended learning are empowering humans all over the world to take classes online. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like Cuba to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend these new open education undertakings. Trainers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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