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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Afghanistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to better grasp these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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