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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning technology enable people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is all right? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Austria to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle low motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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