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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in elearning have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with now that blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Lebanon to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Professors want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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