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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in electronic education technology are providing the means for learners all around the world to take classes online. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also deals with the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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