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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning have empowered people in nations all around the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive need for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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