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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in elearning enable humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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