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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online learning technology enable people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Poland to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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