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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take online classes. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology organizations must deal with today because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Yemen to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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