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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advancements in blended learning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these intriguing new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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