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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in elearning enable students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality of these MOOCs is decent? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Gabon to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also talks about the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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