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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in elearning technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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