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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in digital education technology have made it possible for students in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Rwaq to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about these open educational experiments. Trainers want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also describes the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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