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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in blended learning have provided the means for students all over the world to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also addresses the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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