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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in e-learning technology are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions have to consider today because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Colorado System to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also describes the major 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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