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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning technology are providing the means for students all around the world to take classes online. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these interesting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this developing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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