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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in blended learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to take online classes. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Christmas Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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