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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in blended learning technology enable students all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology institutions are considering now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Wellesley College to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these exciting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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