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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in electronic educational technology enable learners in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to deal with now that blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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