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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take online classes. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are struggling with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Canvas Network to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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