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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic educational technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to take classes online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions are struggling with now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Utah Valley University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education experiments. Trainers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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