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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in blended learning technology are making it possible for students all over the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Jordan to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also explores the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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