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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in technology-enhanced learning are empowering students all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions are having to consider today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Angola to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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