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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in blended learning are enabling students all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning institutions have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Washington to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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