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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest evolvements in online education have empowered people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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