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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advancements in blended learning enable humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology institutions must deal with today because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Ecotech Institute to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also describes the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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