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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in learning technology have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions have to consider today because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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