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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions are having to consider today because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Senegal to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational ventures. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This gripping new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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