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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in online education technology are providing the means for students all around the world to take classes online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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