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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning are enabling students all over the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations are having to consider now that distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers certify that the quality control for these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Iceland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Academics want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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