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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education technology have enabled humans all over the world to take online courses. These massive open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of Pennsylvania to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Students want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the most important 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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