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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning technology enable people all over the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This book also talks about the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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