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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology have enabled students all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations have to consider more than ever because online education technology is improving so fast. How can educators certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Uruguay to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this developing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This amazing new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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