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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in elearning enable people in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like One Month to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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