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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in blended learning have provided the means for people all over the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are struggling with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Columbia University to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also describes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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