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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are struggling with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by institutions like Mexico to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To meet this crescive need for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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