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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in blended learning enable humans in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these MOOC courses is adequate? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more available there is a expanding need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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