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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in blended learning technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of New Mexico to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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