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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in e-learning are enabling students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with today because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Professors want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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