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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in electronic educational technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to take online classes. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is adequate? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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