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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in blended learning technology enable people all over the world to take classes online. These massive open courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to consider today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Babson College to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also describes the major 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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