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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in e-learning have empowered humans all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Chile to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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