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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology have enabled learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions have to consider more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a growing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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