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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education are enabling learners in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations are having to consider today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these significant new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this demand for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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