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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in e-learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these interesting new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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