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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in online education technology are making it possible for humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Trainers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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