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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in elearning technology are enabling students all around the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is all right? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this expanding demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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