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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like French Guiana to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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