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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in elearning have enabled people all around the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Somalia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a developing need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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