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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in online education enable learners all around the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to understand these new open educational ventures. Academics want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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