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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning have provided the means for learners all over the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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