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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in blended learning technology have empowered humans all around the world to participate in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Liberia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage low motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also researches the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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