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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in blended learning technology have empowered people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that elearning institutions have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Slovenia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desire for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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