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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in e-learning technology have empowered students all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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