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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning technology are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Houston System to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational ventures. Instructors want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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