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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in elearning technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions must deal with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive demand for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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