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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in elearning are providing the means for students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Colorado System to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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