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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in blended learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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