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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education institutions have to deal with now that blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also explores the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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