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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in blended learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations must deal with now that online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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