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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in blended learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like British Antarctic Territory to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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