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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in online learning technology enable people all around the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Virginia to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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