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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in learning technology have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Academics want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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