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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous issues that elearning institutions are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage poor student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Students want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This interesting new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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