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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New developments in distance learning technology have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Morocco to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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