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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in blended learning have provided the means for people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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