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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in blended learning are enabling learners in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These massive online courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions have to consider now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like LinkedIn to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these open education endeavours. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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