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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Jordan to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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