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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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