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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in blended learning are enabling learners all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is passable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Rutgers University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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