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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in elearning have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Burundi to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these new open education endeavours. Teachers want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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