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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning technology are making it possible for learners all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Florida to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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