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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning enable people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with now that distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Bhutan to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to better comprehend these important new open education undertakings. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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