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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are having to deal with now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is respectable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like North Seattle Community College to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Intellectuals want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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