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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in elearning technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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