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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in online education enable learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are considering today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we assure that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like The New School to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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