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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic educational technology have empowered learners all over the world to take part in courses online. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that blended learning institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these exciting new open education experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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