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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in blended learning technology are empowering people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to consider now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the education provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Mount Sinai School of Medicine to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Academics want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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