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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in e-learning are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational undertakings. Academics want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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