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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in blended learning are enabling learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider today because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Andorra to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of these new open educational initiatives. Universities want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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