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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in blended learning enable people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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