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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in e-learning technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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