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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in blended learning technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online education institutions must deal with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Tumblr to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better grasp these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This amazing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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