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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in online education have enabled people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several topics that blended learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like UWashingtonX to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education undertakings. Academics want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this expanding desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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