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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online learning have enabled humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desire for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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