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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in blended learning technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. 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 classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of South Florida to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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