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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Belgium to conduct these massively open online courses? How can participants manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to better understand these important new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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