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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in blended learning technology enable students all over the world to take part in online classes. These massive open courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this developing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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