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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in blended learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education ventures. Professors want to perceive how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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