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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in distance learning technology have made it possible for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Morocco to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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