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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in blended learning technology have made it possible for students in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that distance learning organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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