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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in blended learning have empowered learners all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Austria to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive these promising new open education initiatives. Scholars want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also examines the major 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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