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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in blended learning have provided the means for learners all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that online education technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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