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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that blended learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like Nauru to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational initiatives. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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