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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in e-learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education ventures. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also deals with the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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