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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New developments in online learning have enabled people all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Australia to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. People want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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