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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in blended learning technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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