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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in blended learning have provided the means for learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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