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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in blended learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like Google+ to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Trainers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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