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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in technology-enhanced learning enable people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a expanding demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better perceive these new open educational ventures. Professors want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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