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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in blended learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in online classes. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Sudan to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this growing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This thrilling new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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