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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New changes in online learning have enabled humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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