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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in e-learning technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are considering now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As blended learning becomes more available there is a increasing desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding need for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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