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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in electronic education technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a growing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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