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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in e-learning are providing the means for students all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Philippines to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Academics want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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