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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online education have enabled people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this need for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also deals with the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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