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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning are enabling learners all over the world to take part in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding need for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also discusses the key 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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