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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in online education are empowering learners in all parts of the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Michigan to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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