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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in blended learning have enabled students all over the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these significant new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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