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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in blended learning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Great Basin College to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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