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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Northwestern University to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This thrilling new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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