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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several subjects that elearning institutions are considering today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on low learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Instructors want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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