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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in blended learning technology have enabled students all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Clipperton Island to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to better grasp these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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