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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education have provided the means for students all around the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to struggle with now that blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants need to better grasp these promising new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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