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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning technology have empowered humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a expanding demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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