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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in blended learning have enabled humans in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by institutions like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this increasing desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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