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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New developments in elearning are empowering learners all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC classes are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations have to consider more than ever because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Rice University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a growing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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