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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning technology have made it possible for people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like WizIQ to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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