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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in blended learning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these interesting new open education endeavours. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also studies the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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