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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in e-learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take online classes. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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