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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in blended learning are empowering humans all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations have to deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality control for these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Professors want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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