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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in e-learning are empowering humans all around the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are struggling with now that online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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