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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic education technology have enabled people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like Gambia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these new open educational ventures. Trainers want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this growing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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