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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Rochester to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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