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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in blended learning technology are providing the means for students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? How can organizations manage problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this expanding desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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