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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in e-learning are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a expanding demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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