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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in electronic education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Botswana to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants would like to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this growing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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