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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in technology-enhanced learning have enabled students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning institutions are having to deal with now that blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Guernsey to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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