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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in blended learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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