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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in technology-enhanced learning enable learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Solomon Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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