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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in blended learning technology are empowering humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are having to consider now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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