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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in electronic education technology make it possible for people in all parts of the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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