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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning are empowering learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like The Bahamas to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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