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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in elearning have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many topics that elearning technology organizations have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like University of New Mexico to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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