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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning technology have enabled learners all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions are considering in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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