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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in blended learning have made it possible for learners in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Monaco to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Intellectuals and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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