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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in blended learning technology have enabled learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not always 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 quite a few subjects that blended learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a demand to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this growing demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also explores the 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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