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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in blended learning technology are empowering students all over the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants would like to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this developing demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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