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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in elearning are providing the means for students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this developing desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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