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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in elearning are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Navassa Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants would like to better understand these important new open educational experiments. Teachers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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