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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in elearning have empowered learners all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Rwaq to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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