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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in blended learning have enabled people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like French Southern and Antarctic Lands to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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