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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online learning are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that blended learning organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Finland to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Instructors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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