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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in online education technology have enabled learners all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Lecturers want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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