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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest gains in blended learning technology are enabling learners all over the world to take online classes. These massive online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and many other participants desire to better understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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