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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations are having to consider today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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