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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in e-learning enable students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Netherlands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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