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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in blended learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Google+ to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Students want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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