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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in electronic education technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that blended learning institutions are having to deal with now that learning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can we be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Saint Martin to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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