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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in blended learning technology are empowering people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can participants assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Dominica to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this crescive need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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