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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. MOOC courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology organizations have to deal with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a desire to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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