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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic education technology have made it possible for humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with poor student motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this expanding need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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