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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in electronic education technology have enabled humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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