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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in electronic educational technology enable people all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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