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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in online learning are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with now that blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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