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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in blended learning technology are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOCs are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these exciting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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