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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in blended learning are enabling people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend these exciting new open education endeavours. Academics want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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