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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in elearning have empowered learners in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these open educational experiments. Instructors want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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