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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in blended learning technology are empowering people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning technology organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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