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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in digital education technology enable students in nations all aver the world to participate in online classes. 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 always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Finland to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also addresses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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