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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in blended learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Latvia to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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