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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in blended learning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to take online classes. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are considering now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education undertakings. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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