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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in distance learning are making it possible for students all over the world to take classes online. MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Jersey to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. People want to know how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also talks about the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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