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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education technology have enabled people all over the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by institutions like American College of Education to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to understand these compelling new open education experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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