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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in blended learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Cuba to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Students want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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