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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a necessity to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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