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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in blended learning technology enable humans all around the world to take part in courses online. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Algeria to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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