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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in blended learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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