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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in blended learning technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive these new open educational experiments. Scholars want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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