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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in learning technology are empowering students in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Trainers want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also researches the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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