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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in blended learning technology are making it possible for humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Israel to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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