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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 massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in blended learning are empowering learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Botswana to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. People want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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