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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in blended learning technology have enabled people all around the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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