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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in e-learning have provided the means for learners all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are considering now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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