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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in blended learning technology enable humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations have to consider now that blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we make sure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this developing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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