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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in digital education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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