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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in blended learning are enabling humans all around the world to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Saint Helena to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This new book also deals with the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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