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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in blended learning technology have provided the means for students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to consider today because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions make sure that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Gambia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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