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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in blended learning technology make it possible for learners all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with now that online education technology is developing so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Chile to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Students want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this developing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also talks about the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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