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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in blended learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Paraguay to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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