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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations must deal with now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Somalia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these exciting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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