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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in online education enable humans all over the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations are having to consider now that blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Svalbard to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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