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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in blended learning have provided the means for people all over the world to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that elearning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Senegal to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this expanding demand for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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