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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in blended learning technology enable people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions must deal with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by institutions like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these important new open educational endeavours. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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