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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online education are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like MOOEC to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to better understand these promising new open education undertakings. Researchers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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