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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in electronic educational technology have empowered learners all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning organizations have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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