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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in blended learning have enabled students in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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