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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in elearning have empowered people all over the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Tokelau to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to better understand these new open educational ventures. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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