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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in e-learning are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions have to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Michigan State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also talks about the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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