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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in electronic education technology have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is adequate? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like The University of Chicago to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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