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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in electronic educational technology are making it possible for humans all around the world to take part in classes online. MOOC courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage low motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Trainers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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