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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in blended learning are enabling students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Rochester to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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