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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in blended learning technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these exciting new open education ventures. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Trainers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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