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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning technology are providing the means for students all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Colorado System to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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