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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in elearning have empowered humans in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators make sure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is good? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This thrilling new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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