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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations have to consider today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Albania to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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