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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning technology are providing the means for students in nations all aver the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Malta to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Intellectuals and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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