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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in online education have enabled people all over the world to take classes online. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Lebanon to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education ventures. Universities want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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