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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology are enabling students all over the world to take part in online courses. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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