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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Kyrgyzstan to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to understand these important new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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