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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest changes in blended learning are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Chad to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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