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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning enable people in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Niger to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with low motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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