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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning have enabled students all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Ireland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also studies the most important 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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