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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning have made it possible for students all over the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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