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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in online education have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also researches the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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