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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in blended learning are making it possible for people all over the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are free for students 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 quite a few topics that blended learning institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also deals with the key 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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