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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in distance learning technology have enabled students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with now that blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to understand these important new open educational initiatives. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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