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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in elearning technology have empowered people all over the world to take part in online classes. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. People want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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