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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in blended learning are enabling students all over the world to participate in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations have to deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Sierra Leone to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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