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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in blended learning technology make it possible for people in all parts of the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Sierra Leone to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Trainers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive need for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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