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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advancements in elearning technology are enabling students all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Iran to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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