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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in elearning have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education ventures. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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