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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOC courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can participants certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open educational experiments. Trainers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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