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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Greece to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to be more aware of these significant new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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