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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in blended learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massively open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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