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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in blended learning have enabled people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Czech Republic to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational initiatives. Everyone wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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