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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in blended learning technology have made it possible for people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning institutions have to deal with today because online education technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Michigan to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Professors want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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