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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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