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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that elearning technology institutions are struggling with today because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a demand to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Students want to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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