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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Bowling Green State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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